Franco American Portal Project: Building an Open Access Discovery Tool for Franco American Collections
FAIN: PW-269238-20
University of Maine, Orono (Orono, ME 04473-1513)
Jacob Albert (Project Director: July 2019 to October 2022)
A multi-institutional planning project to
develop an online portal for access to archival sources on Franco American
history and culture. The project team would
also plan for digitizing Franco American sources at partner institutions and would
explore linking other library and archival collections to the portal.
The Franco American Portal
Project is a five-university collaboration to build a primary source discovery
tool for Franco American collections. Sponsored by the University of Maine and
in collaboration with the University of Southern Maine, University of Maine at
Fort Kent, Assumption College, and St. Anselm College, this project seeks to create
a single, bilingual, culturally conscientious, searchable portal to archival
materials concerning the French Canadian diaspora in the United States. Funds
will be used to create a portal that links to the five partners' in-scope
archival collections; foster teamwork and partner collaboration; support
outreach to solicit in-scope materials from other institutions in the United
States and Canada; and develop a digitization plan for growing content for the
portal.
Media Coverage
NEH funds development of first-ever online, bilingual portal to several Franco American archives (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Marcus Wolf
Publication: UMaine News
Date: 4/21/2020
URL: https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2020/04/21/neh-funds-development-of-first-ever-online-bilingual-portal-to-several-franco-american-archives/
First-ever online, bilingual portal to Franco American archives launches this spring (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Marcus Wolf
Publication: UMaine News
Date: 3/12/2021
Abstract: Press release of Spring 2021 project launch, Franco American Digital Archives/Portail franco-américain
URL: https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2021/03/12/first-ever-online-bilingual-portal-to-franco-american-archives-launches-this-spring/